I don’t know how this is accomplished, but I hope Hinch as a stable anchor can keep the young players, especially, focused on the bubble of this mutual momentum they appear to inhabit.
It only exists game-by-game, and must be renewed daily through a single-pointed focus on the goal of the day. They have to keep their heads firmly entrenched in each single game and avoid distractions about the future.
When Hinch says they purposely avoid getting caught up in the future, this is exactly what he’s talking about. We have the luxury of pondering these imponderables, but they don’t.
There’s times on the field, where you sense them coalescing into something greater than the sum of their singular identities, as if they were surfing on the same great wave. It’s really something to behold.